print/cups overhaul (PR 207746) side-effects

[Jim Ohlstein]

Hello,



Jim Ohlstein
> On Mar 11, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just did a rebuild of packages for my webservers with poudriere.
> What I noticed was that via the print/cups overhaul (see PR 207746),
> quite a lot (>50) of additional dependencies are added to the system, including
> lots of x11 related libs, avahi, dbus, cairo, opengl, etc.
> 
> This stems from installing pecl-imagick which results in pulling in ImageMagick,
> ghostscript, and cups.
> 
> Now, of course I can manually remove port options and reduce the number
> of additional dependencies, but I feel uneasy about the defaults now.
> 
> If I wanted to adjust an existing port to be less greedy with regards to dependencies,
> how would I go about that? Create a slave port?
> 
> Thoughts, anyone?
> 

+1

All of a sudden my build box spent almost two hours compiling LLVM-36 and clang36 and then choked on Cairo "is marked as broken: OpenGL option needs X11 support". This was after it compiled all this X11 crap that my servers don't need. Ironically, I need to refactor options because now I can't build ImageMagick-noX11. 

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Jim